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.*************************. Having moved back to my hometown in April 2009, I live in one of the desperately underpopulated areas in Japan now. Let me share my life in a real countryside with aging parents living in the same house. And here in Muroto -- the place where I chose to live -- you can hear the heartbeat of the Earth! ;)

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

Well, at least the blueberries were not canned or dried. However, I highly doubt if I could call them really “fresh” after having to throw away almost half of them with mold. The rest looked miserably unjuicy. I’m not going to tell you how much I had to pay for them because that still makes me very unhappy.

Anyway, I made these fresh blueberry pancakes this morning, and I liked them far better than the blueberry pancakes I often make with canned blueberries in syrup.It was a no-egg recipe that I used for these pancakes and I added a little yogurt to the batter, so this was a rather guilt-free breakfast.

Oh I can’t wait to make fresh blueberry pancakes with blueberries from my balcony garden!

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obachan;'The pancakes look so good. I've tried using blueberries and my pancakes always get so dark..even with fresh berries.....you must have been very careful when stirring!!!!!Do you use maple syrup on them, butter, or just plain?Yum....

> Tea --- Yes, from scratch. Or more precisely, from a pancake mix that I made myself. Here we don’t have the kind of “pancake mix” you have. All we have is “hotcake mix” which is awfully sweet. So whenever I have time, I make my own pancake mix from a recipe I found on the net and keep it in a big jar.

> Anonymous commenter --- You know, it sucks because some things ARE cheaper when imported… like eels from China, Broccoli from US and matsutake mushrooms from Canada… Why not blueberries? Also, we’ve started growing blueberries in Japan, even in Kochi, and we see locally grown blueberries at Sunday market, too. And still they are as expensive as imported ones. I don’t understand why.

> Annie --- I never tried banana bread with blueberries but it sounds yummy, too. Too bad about your apartment facing north and south… I wonder if there’s something you can grow without much sunlight. Mushrooms? Sprouts?

> carlyn --- Oh, that was the only advantage of using those miserably unjuicy blueberries :D I usually use butter and cheap fake maple syrup on them, but this time I used real maple syrup with butter. So they were not really healthy or low-fat breakfast… just “rather guilt-free.” ;)

> Kristi --- They looked juicy in the pancakes, but you didn’t want to see them before they went into the batter…